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| Verlag | Steidl |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 304 |
| Format | 15,9 x 2,0 x 20,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 475 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 3969990084 |
| EAN | 9783969990087 |
| Bestell-Nr | 96999008A |
Let's See is a photo-novel of Dayanita Singh's earliest years as a photographer, a return to a time when she did not yet consider herself a photographer, the probing remembrance of "an eye I no longer have access to." Singh has recently poured through 40 years of her archive-80% of which remains unseen-exploring scans of her contact sheets and being amazed by the gentle and tender images from the 1980s and '90s she had since forgotten-hostel roommates, friends with whom she lived, family, weddings, funerals; portraits of herself and those who would become important characters in her life: her mother Nony Singh, Zakir Hussain, Mona Ahmed whom she depicted in the emotive visual biography Myself Mona Ahmed (2001).
Singh's first camera, a Pentax ME Super with a 50mm lens, was a gift from the German publisher Ernst Battenberg (1927-92), and with it she "made photos of everything I could, trying to make a roll of film last as long as possible," creating contact sheets of all her imag es, but realizing the rare luxury of an individual print only for a publication or a book project. "I call this book Let's See," says Singh, "because these images are about exactly that: how we see, what we don't see, what only the camera sees..."
